STEM coding toys — toys that emphasize science, technology, engineering, and math — are on the rise. Amazon recently experimented with a program that delivers STEM toys to subscribers’ homes, and ...

Unlike many STEM toys that rely heavily on building-block pieces, the Rider kit is ready to use out of the box and you don’t ...

Cubetto is a robot toy powered by an Arduino that uses a wooden block programming interface to teach kids how to code, and it’s available to buy right now. After a successful Kickstarter campaign that ...

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In 2014, Apple introduced a programming language called Swift that made waves in the developer community -- not just for its power and flexibility, but for how easy it is to learn. So easy, in fact, ...

While a cry to the importance of programming learning gets strong recently, teaching materials which we can learn programming with a game feeling are released one after another. "KOOV" by SONY is a ...

When parents these days hear the old saying “The jobs of tomorrow haven’t been invented yet,” they tend to add, “so my child had better learn to code.” As software has redefined a range of industries ...

Programming can be a lonely, abstract, and ultimately frustrating activity. Even when building the simplest of applications, you can spend hours---indeed days---in front of a computer, coding in some ...

While major players like Disney and Activision, to some extent, are abandoning the "toys-to-life" ship that they helped establish, their departure leaves room for more takers and innovators to take ...